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“The Revenant” Last Full Show Feature - Advance Screening on Feb. 2

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio’s award-winning and acclaimed film, “The Revenant”
from Academy Award winning director Alejandro Iñárritu holds its public advance
screenings in Philippine theatres (2D and IMAX screens) as last full show nationwide
on February 2, Tuesday – hours ahead of its opening (following) day on February
3.

Based on true
events from legendary Hugh Glass’ accounts on surviving the wild, uncertain
times and even returning from the dead, “The Revenant” is this year’s most
awaited cinema event. In THE REVENANT, the highly anticipated film from 20th Century Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio
plays Hugh Glass, a fur trapper and frontiersman who is left for dead deep in the
unchartered American

wilderness by a traitorous
member of his team, John Fitzgerald (Tom
Hardy).

With sheer will as his only weapon, Glass must navigate a hostile
environment, a brutal winter and warring tribes in a relentless quest to
survive and exact vengeance on Fitzgerald.
Inspired by a true story, the film is directed and co-written by
renowned filmmaker and Academy Award-winner

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel).

Glass’s mythology
began in 1823, when he was among thousands joining the fur trade, a driving new
force in the US economy. It was a time when many saw the wild as a spiritual
void that demanded to be tamed and conquered by the steeliest of men. And so
they poured into the unknown, plying unmapped rivers, disappearing into
impossibly lush forests, seeking not only excitement and adventure but also
profits -- often in fierce competition with the Native tribes for whom these
lands had long been home.

Many such men
died anonymously, but Glass entered the annals of American folklore by flat-out
refusing to die. His legend sparked after he faced one of the West’s most
feared dangers: a startled grizzly
bear. For even the most tested
frontiersmen that should have been the end.
But not for Glass. In Iñárritu’s telling of the tale, a mauled Glass
clings to life – then suffers a human betrayal that fuels him to continue at
any cost. In spite of tremendous loss, Glass pulls himself from an early grave
– clawing his way through a gauntlet of unknown perils and unfamiliar cultures
on a journey that becomes not just a search for reckoning but for redemption.
As Glass moves through the frontier in turmoil, he comes to reject the urge for
destruction that once drove him. He has
become a “revenant” -- one returned from the dead.

“The Revenant is
a story of harsh survival but also one of inspirational hope,” Iñárritu
says. “For me, the important part was to
convey this adventure with a sense of wonder and discovery, as an exploration
of both nature and human nature.”

“The Revenant”
opens in cinemas across the nation starting February 3 (also in IMAX screens)
from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros. Check your nearest theatres for schedule and
advance ticket purchase.